What are some good books about post-Alexander Hellenistic Greece?

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It's not a really popular or (imo) interesting period because it lacks the big names and famous events of earlier Greece and later Rome. It's far from dull, it just doesn't leave a remarkable impression, as it's largely a mess of squabbling dynasties broken off from Alexander's conquests, which doesn't really change until Rome enters the world stage mid 3rd cent. bc. 3rd century is basically Roman/Carthaginian history, and the century closes with almost total Roman domination (barring some Greek leagues of alliance, and Egypt), to be solidified in 146.

>>9836518
German scholar Christian Habicht's Athens from Alexander to Antony (Harvard pb) was a little dry, but solid.

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>>9836518
Livy, Books XXXI to XLV

Shipley, Graham (2000). The Greek World After Alexander. Routledge History of the Ancient World. New York: Routledge.

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>>9836768
>it lacks the big names and famous events of earlier Greece and later Rome

Antigonus in the wars of the Diadochi says wut

what about post alexander egypt

>>9837624
>1 of 4 offshoot dynasties that basically nobody can even name
>not even the more famous Ptolemies

My point stands. Nobody seriously ranks any of Alexander's lieutenants/dynasts alongside the likes of Themistocles, Alexander, the Scipios, Julius Caesar, etc. The dynastic struggles after Alexander are interesting but unremarkable; they have no major players driving noteworthy events as did the Greco-Persian wars, Peloponnesian war, Alexander's conquests, the Punic wars.

Might rank them among, like, the later Macedonian wars alongside someone like Aemilianus. But the Hellenistic age just didn't hold a candle to classical Greece or Republican/early imperial Rome.

>>9837671
Just read a book about the Ptolemies and a book about the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. That takes you from Alexander to Egypt as a Roman province.

>>9837620
This is good for the much later stuff, but unfortunately is broken off from some earlier developments (Pyrrhus) and cuts off at 167BC, which follows through the end of Macedon as an independent (let alone significant) state, but doesn't quite reach 146, with the end of the Achaean (I think) league, razing of Corinth, and (tangentially related) the destruction of Carthage and the almost total Roman hegemony in the Mediterranean. Also it's a Roman history, and makes no claims to describing Greece any more than was relevant for Roman aims.

>>9836768
>>9837598
>>9837620
I'll check these out, thanks.